ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,616, issued on March 18, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Spatial domain measurements for beam based positioning" was invented by Juha Pekka Karjalainen (Oulu, Finland), Timo Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Sami-Jukka Hakola (Kempele, Finland), Italo Atzeni (Oulu, Finland), Carlos Morais De Lima (Oulu, Finland), Dileep Kumar (Oulu, Finland) and Antti Tolli (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments relate to positioning of a target node. A positioning report may comprise positioning assistance measurements from the target node and at least one anchor node, wherein the positioning assis...